Late last July, with preparations for the new season in full swing, Jurgen Klopp expressed his excitement about the future.
Klopp has always been committed to giving youth a chance and it will never be forgotten at the club how one of his first acts as manager, in October 2015, was to spend a Saturday morning watching an Under 18s game at the academy.
Clubs only move forward if they keep planning ahead and Klopp has never flinched in his search for new blood for Liverpool’s team, so what he saw on the training pitches in pre-season left him purring.